Roman Majewski: Sunday without God begins to be a bad normality
In the old days, Sunday morning smelled like fresh baked cake, ironed shirts, and sounded like church bells. Today, it smells like fast coffee with a network and buying in a buying mall. Where there was an altar in the center of Sunday, present there is simply a tv with Netflix connected. Sunday — the Lord’s Day — increasingly becomes a day with... a pilot.
In Poland, a country inactive Catholic, where thousands of chapels stand on the roads, church holidays vanish from the calendar. Not due to the fact that they are not there — but due to the fact that we simply stopped celebrating and noticing them. More and more families choose a buying gallery alternatively of a church, and Mass loses competition with morning running. This is not about criticism of physical activity, which in itself is crucial — but about reversing the hierarchy of values in which God and the Eucharist cease to be the most crucial goal of the holy day.
The Church has taught for centuries that Sunday is simply a “little Passover” — a souvenir Resurrections Jesus Christ. A day that should be devoted to God, family, and rest. After all, this is 1 of the 10 Commandments: “Remember that you may celebrate the holy day.” Yet, many Catholics view this commandment as optional, non-binding. alternatively of gathering Christ at the Eucharist, the precedence is to meet friends or catch up with the series. We remainder from work, but not from sin. As a result, our Sunday becomes spiritually empty — and it does not regenerate us as we say.
A household that doesn't kneel together is separated. Sunday was erstwhile a buckle that brought together generations — a common Eucharist, a walk, a dinner. present everyone celebrates separately: children with TikTok, parents with TV, and grandparents with bitterness that no 1 comes to Sunday broth anymore. Without sharing holy time, the breakdown of the household community is only a substance of time.
What can you do? First of all, return to the basics and traditions. Reestablish Sunday as a day of real holiness. A day free of work (unless absolutely necessary), without shopping, without amusement that only distracts us. Let's meet our loved ones, not at the screen, but at the household table. And let us remember — and our children — that the planet is not around us, but around God, who was crucified for our sins and resurrected on the 3rd day.
Because Sunday without God is not recreation, but spiritual abdication. And let us not be deceived: unless we teach the children to celebrate the Lord's Day, we teach them that the presence of God and the Church in our lives is unnecessary. And then we wonder if the young generation doesn't go to church. But it only faithfully repeats what it saw in our house. We must bear witness — not in words, but in lifestyle.
Sunday is not “free from work” but time for God, household and soul. If this day ceases to be sacred, nothing will be truly good in a week.
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